Sentences with phrase «importance for human beings»

«Faces are of tremendous importance for human beings,» the neuroscientist explains.

Furthermore, the importance of what happens is by no means limited to its importance for human beings.

Both the importance for human beings of meaningful work and the pitfalls of that ideal are acknowledged in the concept of fitting work that Muirhead develops.

I am only asking if, amid all the diverse and conflicting processes and meaningless events that occur in history, there is some one process that, when required conditions are present, progressively creates something of supreme importance for human beings?

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It is nothing but a number, no different than 999,999,999,999 for all practical purposes, but we humans are not practical creatures: we attach importance to all kinds of silly things, round numbers chief amongst them.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

While acknowledging certain benefits of «emerging robotic armies» (e.g., fewer human casualties for the side deploying the drones), Latiff and McCloskey think that the issues involved are of tremendous moral importance:

From this it follows that, for economic thought, human relations and the community constituted by them are of no importance.

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

Therefore, it is of great importance for the nurture of human beings that the economic organization of society be based upon a comprehensive and not a partial concept of human nature.

In chapters like «The Meaning of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift of the Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex is reserved for marriage, the importance of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse are so vital for a successful marriage.

The interest for us in this doctrine is primarily that it illustrates further the importance and persistence of the questions raised by the human experiences of change and of dependence.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

On the other hand, those who believe that there are questions of greatest importance for human existence that are not amenable to the kind of inquiry we associate with the natural sciences, will be more sympathetic toward theology.

In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

This «cooking» process was of utmost importance because it produced the chemicals necessary for the evolution of planetary bodies such as our earth, and thus it made possible also the eventual appearance of life and human beings.

Yet Lloyd - Morgan is not alone in his estimate of the importance of Jesus for the philosopher who would take account of all the facts in nature, history, and human experience.

For Whitehead, this importance is not limited to issues of human morality, although he is keenly concerned about these.

Weil had immense respect for the human intellect and the vital importance of the kind of truth that is accessible only to the intellect.

The investment of the person into productive projects is of transcendent, transformative importance, not just for the material progress of society, but most of all for the full realization of human potential.

As human beings we should be appropriately anxious to take advantage of the opportunities for care that are offered us, and the limitation of our time greatly enhances the importance of how we use it.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

The erotic literature of the age which is so exclusively concerned with one person's enjoyment of another and the pseudo-psychoanalytical thinking which looks for the solution to the problem of marriage through simply freeing «inhibitions» both ignore the vital importance of the Thou which must be received in true presentness if human life, either public or personal, is to exist.

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

This makes primary for God what is secondary for humane people, and limits the scope of intrinsic importance to human beings as the only beings capable of moral altitudes.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

«General education» here means studies that are carried out with primary concern for their universal human relevance and with due attention to those ideas of fundamental importance which span the gulfs between the specialized disciplines.

Of course, an existentialist interpretation does not ignore this other relation, but, as Bultmann's essay shows, the importance of the world in that interpretation is limited to providing the stage for human life.

Their recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual values for human beings are of great importance.

Despite all this, Jaspers is correct in seeing the developments of the first millennium before Christ as of utmost importance for human existence.

His enthusiasm for the importance of the will in growth caused him to underemphasize the considerable extent to which the wills of us human beings are «in bondage» (as Martin Luther put it).

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That is, when men had learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.

Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.

Because this happening discloses what is most essential for our understanding of reality, it enjoys an importance in human thought and behavior that sets it apart from all other happenings, for it is precisely in relation to the real that man finds fulfilment in his own being.

But this does not lessen for her the importance of what is happening now to human beings in our world.

Therefore this communion is the meaning of history when «meaning of history» refers to something that is going on in history which is of supreme importance for the human level of existence.

I would be failing ethically because I take my beliefs to be not merely true, but of profound importance for all human persons.

Yet this may be the importance of the popular song — and that for the reason that human sexuality and the capacity to love (in all the aspects which I have listed) are closely associated.

Nor can the theology of man be expounded in its entirety, but only in so far as it is of importance for a Catholic scientist in relation to the theory of human evolution.

These questions are of major importance, not only for those who call themselves Christians but also for the entire human race.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

The reality of power is complex; and its use and misuse in all human, social and political relations and interactions has been a question of utmost importance for all peoples.

The relations with their more immediate environments, human and nonhuman, are of primary importance for who they are.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

What needs to be done for any disputed passage of importance is to try to find its perennial meaning — that is to say, its existential meaning as it bears on the conditions of human existence and our lives today.

I have noted this on earlier pages; here it is only necessary to add that precisely this fact gives existence, and for us a fortiori human existence, its value or what Whitehead called its «importance.»

Jefferson's «self - evident» truths were deistic ones: The pursuit of happiness is understood to be what God intended for humans from the creation, in contrast to traditional Christianity's understanding of the pre-eminent importance of glorifying God.